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19 Wis. 417

Waller v. McConnell

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1865

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1865-01-15

Action to recover damages for tbe flowage of plaintiff’s land, caused by tbe maintenance of a mill dam across tbe Ocono-mowoc creek, tbe outlet of Okaucbee lake in said county.

Decided 1865-01-15

¶1By the Court,

Dixok, C. J.

¶2This is an action under the *419Mill Dam Law (R. S., ch. 56), to recover and settle the damages of the plaintiff for lands flowed by the defendant’s dam. The Mill Dam Law is applicable in terms only to streams “not navigable.” The complaint does not state a case within the law. It is not averred, nor was it proved on the trial, that the stream is “not navigable;” and as we cannot take judicial notice that it is not, the judgment must for this reason be reversed. We discover no other error in the proceedings.

¶3Judgment reversed, and cause remanded for further proceedings according to law.

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